When Welsh pop heroes Race Horses set out to make their new album, Furniture, they had one major rule – everything had to feel fresh. “All the new music I was hearing seemed to be hidden behind reverb, behind a veneer of cool,” says singer Meilyr. “We wanted to make something much more stark and direct.”

The album they created is exactly that: a pin-sharp pop record inspired by Queen, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Soft Cell – and by the disco at the youth hostel they were staying at during the two-week recording sessions at The Pool in South London. “It was full of Spanish tourists dancing to Michael Jackson,” says guitarist Dylan. We were there on the dance floor trying to work out why it sounded so good, analysing Quincy Jones’s production and thinking, how did he get that hi-hat sound, or that groove?” The experience rubbed off onto the album. “It inspired us to make something quite rhythmic and groove-based that wasn’t computerised or perfect,” says Meilyr.

Follow up to "Kid A", released in the same year. It finds Radiohead continuing their experiments of the previous album but with added structure and a stronger ’song’ base. This all adds up to a phenomenal album of vision and depth that will disappoint no one.

This album is something of a consolidation of their post- "OK Computer" direction. While it’s choc-ful of analogue electronics, jazz-rock oddness, techno Gothic wierdness, scatterbrained drum-machines and insanely-inspiring words - there is actually more to properly grab a hold of this time. There’s a number of conventional(ish!) piano songs including one acheingly gorgeous standout called "Sail To The Moon". There’s also more obvious(ish!) rockier moments like "2+2=5" which ends in punky, thrashed guitar, and "A Punch-Up At A Wedding" that has lyrics you can follow (!!) and a sweet, undulating bassline. This album’s just as challenging as the last two, but a lot more rewarding.

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2001 album featuring The National Anthem, Idioteque and Everything In Its Right Place plus the previously unreleased True Love Waits - recorded from various shows in Oxford Berlin Oslo and Vaison La Romaine.

Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OKNOTOK will be issued on June 23rd through XL Recordings, coinciding (roughly) with the original 1997 release date(s) of Radiohead’s landmark third album OK COMPUTER. OKNOTOK features the original OK COMPUTER twelve track album, eight B-sides, and the Radiohead completist’s dream: “I Promise,” “Lift,” and “Man Of War.” The original studio recordings of these three previously unreleased and long sought after OK COMPUTER era tracks finally receive their first official issue on OKNOTOK. All material on OKNOTOK is newly remastered from the original analogue tapes.

The title of The Bends refers to decompression sickness, when deep-sea divers come up too quickly — a comment on the band’s sudden fame. The lyrics are filled with Yorke’s unhappiness rendered as health metaphors: He makes himself a cripple who can’t climb the stairs in "Bones," and with "My Iron Lung," he immobilizes himself even more completely.

Radiohead’s eighth studio album, ’The King Of Limbs’, is an experimental progression on the sound of its predecessor, 2007’s ’In Rainbows’. Lyrically the record harks back to 2001’s ’Amnesia’, and indeed the heavy use of electronic instrumentation and distortion also recalls both ’Amnesia’ and ’Kid A’. The title comes from the name given to an ancient tree near Radiohead’s recording studio.

Throughout the Summer of 2011, Radiohead released a series of seven 12”s featuring remixes of tracks from the ‘King Of Limbs’ album by handpicked electronic producers / artists currently exciting and inspiring them.One new 12” hit the specialist shops every two weeks. At the end of this series a double CD album compiling all 19 remixes in chronological order is released on XL Recordings.

After nearly five years of playing together, hundreds of sweat-drenched, high-octane rock shows and two critically-acclaimed EP’s under their belts, Missouri punk brothers Radkey present the release of their hugely-anticipated debut album, ‘Dark Black Makeup’, produced by Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, The Kills) in San Francisco and Sheffield.

The three brothers from St. Joseph, Missouri have evolved a distinctive sound. They started with a punk base and gathered power and tightness with each new tour. Now with the release of ‘Dark Black Makeup’, Radkey reveals a musical maturity beyond their years.

1. Testify2. Guerilla Radio3. Calm Like A Bomb4. Mic Check5. Sleep Now In The Fire6. Born Of A Broken Man7. Born As Ghosts8. Maria9. Voice Of The Voiceless10. New Millennium Homes11. Ashes In The Fall12. War Within A Breath

1. Thing Called Love 2. Nick Of Time 3. Nobody’s Girl 4. Something To Talk About 5. Not The Only One 6. I Can’t Make You Love Me 7. Love Sneakin’ Up On You 8. You 9. Dimming Of The Day10. Love Me Like A Man [Live] 11. Rock Steady [Live] 12. I Believe I’m In Love With You [Live] 13. Lover’s Will 14. Spit Of Love 15. I Can’t Help You Now 16. Silver Lining 17. Time Of Our Lives 18. Hear Me Lord

1. I Will Not Be Broken 2. God Was In The Water 3. Love On One Condition 4. So Close 5. Trinkets 6. Crooked Crown 7. Unnecessarily Mercenary 8. I Don’t Want Anything To Change 9. Deep Water10. Two Lights In The Nighttime 11. The Bed I Made